Oh, sorry, missed the first line. Building against GHC snapshots isn't supported.
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 6:48 AM, Don Stewart <don...@gmail.com> wrote: > It should build. If it doesn't, please report a bug. > > On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 8:53 AM, Tim Docker <t...@dockerz.net> wrote: >> I'd like to build the haskell platform against a recent GHC snapshot, for >> testing purposes. >> >> I see that I can download the source for the platform from: >> >> >> http://lambda.galois.com/hp-tmp/2011.2.0.1/haskell-platform-2011.2.0.1.tar.gz >> >> with instructions: >> >> http://www.vex.net/~trebla/haskell/haskell-platform.xhtml >> >> However when I tried this some months ago, I found that some of the packages >> in the above source fail to build due to recent ghc changes (eg it's >> stricter handling of bang patterns). >> >> Is there a more recent "beta" snapshot of the platform? Or a darcs/git repo >> somewhere? I imagine wanting to build the platform against bleeding edge ghc >> would be a pretty common desire. >> >> Tim >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Haskell-Cafe mailing list >> Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org >> http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe >> > _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
